Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> 2008-04-02 Royalty Free versus Reasonable and Non Discriminatory Licensing
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>| Now, here an example of a RAND (Reasonable And Non Discriminatory) licensing
>| model, this one has been made by Cisco about VRRP :
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>| Cisco is the owner of US patent No. 5 473 599, relating to the subject matter
>| of "Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol for IPv6
>| <draft-ietf-vrrp-ipv6-spec-04.txt>. If technology in this document is
>| included in a standard adopted by IETF and any claims of this or any other
>| Cisco patent are necessary for practicing the standard, any party will be
>| able to obtain a license from Cisco to use any such patent claims under
>| reasonable, non-discriminatory terms to implement and fully comply with the
>| standard.
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>| First you need to contact Cisco to have a license but the terms are
>| unknown. "Non-discriminatory" is vague and could be an issue for any free
>| software implementation.
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Rand is just bad, unless it's an X.org extension.
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